Jules Guesde

Jules Guesde (11 November 1845-28 July 1922) was a co-founder of the French Workers' Party in France and a 19th century communist politician and journalist. Guesde led the radically anti-capitalist wing of the party, and he refused to compromise with a capitalist government. Karl Marx called him a "revolutionary phrase-monger" and said that, if Guesde called himself a Marxist, then Marx himself would not be a Marxist.

Biography
Jules Guesde was born on 11 November 1845 in Paris, France, and he worked as a clerk at the Interior Ministry. By the time of the Franco-Prussian War, he was a newspaper editor, and he fled to Switzerland due to his publication of republican works and his support of the Paris Commune Revolt. He read the works of Karl Marx while he was in Geneva, and he returned to France in 1876. Guesde and Marx's son-in-law Paul Lafargue both founded the communist French Workers' Party in 1880, and Guesde refused to have a compromise with a capitalist government. He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies during the 1890s and 1900s, and he became a Minister without Portfolio under Rene Viviani's Republican-Socialist Party. He died in 1922.